In which I stab my CD drive
Feb. 26th, 2007 10:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
katiefooleryDid you ever have one of those days when nothing seems to go right? And when you manage to fix one thing and feel all proud and full of shiny goodness... something else breaks instead?
That pretty much sums up yesterday afternoon for me.
It all started with my music. Or perhaps it started a few weeks ago, when I noticed my CD drive was getting less and less reliable. It had developed a wonderfully quirky habit of either making the most disturbing sounds when I inserted a CD or simply refusing to notice there was anything in the drive at all. I rarely use it, thankfully, but it’s been in higher demand since I got my iriver and needed to transfer the music I bought from iTunes onto said player. Since one of these steps involves writing an audio disc, I’ve developed a bit of a dependency on my CD drive.
On the up side, at least it was good enough to keep working for as long as it took to burn the new music I’d bought on Saturday.
The more annoying down side, of course, was the fact that it immediately stopped working once I’d done that. There I was, trying to move the music to my iriver programme with a notable and annoying lack of success. Not only did the drive stop working, it decided to drop off my system entirely. INCd had a little heart attack and sat in my system tray with an exclamation mark on it all evening.
I didn’t have a heart attack. I glared. And fumed. And raged at the unfairness of it all.
Luckily, there was always my laptop, with its lovely non-crashed hard-drive and its wonderful new battery.
Unfortunately, the wireless network decided that connecting was a newly unfashionable concept and my laptop, being a great follower of fashion, was going with this new trend. Not a huge issue, admittedly, but I had three CDs’ worth of music to upload and I was rather hoping I’d be able to use Gracenotes to cut out much of the work involved there.
Huzzah for me, though, for I learned how to release and renew my IP.
Pity it didn’t help.
But my brother knows how to fix these things - I shall ring him!
...If only he’d picked up the phone.
Then Google became my friend and I found a fix and it worked! Even if my laptop did beep very loudly at me before telling me I’d need to re-start and then taking the choice away from me.
Ah, look at that - I can connect to the network, Gracenotes has worked out what album that is and my music’s going onto iTunes!
You know what would make that a happier situation? If the song could rip at a faster rate than 0.1x. That’d be great. Then iTunes wouldn’t be estimating a thirty-five minute wait for a six minute song.
Thankfully, it got over that. Then the next step was to install my iriver programme on my laptop and put all of my new music onto my iriver player. This went without a hitch, for which I was both grateful and a little suspicious.
All in all, a process that should have taken no more than ten minutes ended up consuming most of an afternoon. And to think I was wondering where my weekend went...
That pretty much sums up yesterday afternoon for me.
It all started with my music. Or perhaps it started a few weeks ago, when I noticed my CD drive was getting less and less reliable. It had developed a wonderfully quirky habit of either making the most disturbing sounds when I inserted a CD or simply refusing to notice there was anything in the drive at all. I rarely use it, thankfully, but it’s been in higher demand since I got my iriver and needed to transfer the music I bought from iTunes onto said player. Since one of these steps involves writing an audio disc, I’ve developed a bit of a dependency on my CD drive.
On the up side, at least it was good enough to keep working for as long as it took to burn the new music I’d bought on Saturday.
The more annoying down side, of course, was the fact that it immediately stopped working once I’d done that. There I was, trying to move the music to my iriver programme with a notable and annoying lack of success. Not only did the drive stop working, it decided to drop off my system entirely. INCd had a little heart attack and sat in my system tray with an exclamation mark on it all evening.
I didn’t have a heart attack. I glared. And fumed. And raged at the unfairness of it all.
Luckily, there was always my laptop, with its lovely non-crashed hard-drive and its wonderful new battery.
Unfortunately, the wireless network decided that connecting was a newly unfashionable concept and my laptop, being a great follower of fashion, was going with this new trend. Not a huge issue, admittedly, but I had three CDs’ worth of music to upload and I was rather hoping I’d be able to use Gracenotes to cut out much of the work involved there.
Huzzah for me, though, for I learned how to release and renew my IP.
Pity it didn’t help.
But my brother knows how to fix these things - I shall ring him!
...If only he’d picked up the phone.
Then Google became my friend and I found a fix and it worked! Even if my laptop did beep very loudly at me before telling me I’d need to re-start and then taking the choice away from me.
Ah, look at that - I can connect to the network, Gracenotes has worked out what album that is and my music’s going onto iTunes!
You know what would make that a happier situation? If the song could rip at a faster rate than 0.1x. That’d be great. Then iTunes wouldn’t be estimating a thirty-five minute wait for a six minute song.
Thankfully, it got over that. Then the next step was to install my iriver programme on my laptop and put all of my new music onto my iriver player. This went without a hitch, for which I was both grateful and a little suspicious.
All in all, a process that should have taken no more than ten minutes ended up consuming most of an afternoon. And to think I was wondering where my weekend went...
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on 2007-02-26 12:35 am (UTC)Oo, you've also reminded me that I need to back up my music!
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on 2007-02-26 02:12 am (UTC)*sends hugs*
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on 2007-02-26 02:41 am (UTC)*whaps CD drive*
But Google is a wondrous thing indeed - it told me how to take a screenshot with a mac! (which by the way is very versatile - you can select the area to screenshot!)
*sneds intarweb cookies and uses Baltar icon to express feelings towards errant CD drives*
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on 2007-02-26 05:38 am (UTC)no subject
on 2007-02-26 06:00 am (UTC)Yes - back up your music before you do anything else!
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on 2007-02-26 06:03 am (UTC)no subject
on 2007-02-26 06:04 am (UTC)You see? Nobody likes you.
And huzzah for Google! I truly knows the answer to just about anything.
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on 2007-02-26 06:05 am (UTC)no subject
on 2007-02-26 09:07 am (UTC)no subject
on 2007-02-26 10:32 am (UTC)